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In this connection it may be said that good clover bay is one of the 

 requisites to success in raising early lambs. While bean straw or 

 other coarse fodder, rich in nitrogen, may be substituted in part, 

 yet there is no coarse fodder so good as first quality clover hay. 



In order to make a more thorough trial of the comparative feed- 

 ing value of ensilage and roots, the succulent food for ewes rearing 

 early lambs, the experiment of 1893 was repeated. In this trial 

 somewhat larger flocks were taken, otherwise the experiment was 

 carried out in all details the same as the one of the previous year. 



Each lot consisted of 16 ewes, and from each pen 15 lambs were 

 raised, one ewe in each lot failed to breed. 



Tables XIII and XI Y give the record of the growth of the lambs 

 of each lot, 



It will be observed that the lambs of each lot were grade Shrop- 

 shires and grade Dorsets, and that these were nearly as equally 

 divided as possible, so that whatever gain one lot may have made 

 over the other was due to the difference of the food consumed and 

 not to any difference to breeding. These sheep were fed ensilage 

 once a day in as large quantities as would be readily consumed. 

 They learned to like the ensilage almost as readily as they did the 

 beets, and it seemed evident that neither ensilage nor beets had 

 been given these sheep before this experiment was commenced. 



